# Release notes for Gluster 3.8.8

This is a bugfix release. The [Release Notes for 3.8.0](3.8.0.md),
[3.8.1](3.8.1.md), [3.8.2](3.8.2.md), [3.8.3](3.8.3.md), [3.8.4](3.8.4.md),
[3.8.5](3.8.5.md), [3.8.6](3.8.6.md) and [3.8.7](3.8.7.md) contain a listing of
all the new features that were added and bugs fixed in the GlusterFS 3.8 stable
release.


## Bugs addressed

A total of 38 patches have been merged, addressing 35 bugs:

- [#1375849](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1375849): [RFE] enable sharding with virt profile - /var/lib/glusterd/groups/virt
- [#1378384](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1378384): log level set in glfs_set_logging() does not work
- [#1378547](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1378547): Asynchronous Unsplit-brain still causes Input/Output Error on system calls
- [#1389781](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1389781): build: python on Debian-based dists use .../lib/python2.7/dist-packages instead of .../site-packages
- [#1394635](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1394635): errors appear in brick and nfs logs and getting stale files on NFS clients
- [#1395510](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1395510): Seeing error messages [snapview-client.c:283:gf_svc_lookup_cbk] and [dht-helper.c:1666ht_inode_ctx_time_update] (-->/usr/lib64/glusterfs/3.8.4/xlator/cluster/replicate.so(+0x5d75c)
- [#1399423](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1399423): GlusterFS client crashes during remove-brick operation
- [#1399432](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1399432): A hard link is lost during rebalance+lookup
- [#1399468](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1399468): Wrong value in Last Synced column during Hybrid Crawl
- [#1399915](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1399915): [SAMBA-CIFS] : IO hungs in cifs mount while graph switch on & off
- [#1401029](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1401029): OOM kill of nfs-ganesha on one node while fs-sanity test suite is executed.
- [#1401534](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1401534): fuse mount point not accessible
- [#1402697](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1402697): glusterfsd crashed while taking snapshot using scheduler
- [#1402728](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1402728): Worker restarts on log-rsync-performance config update
- [#1403109](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1403109): Crash of glusterd when using long username with geo-replication
- [#1404105](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1404105): Incorrect incrementation of volinfo refcnt during volume start
- [#1404583](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1404583): Upcall: Possible use after free when log level set to TRACE
- [#1405004](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1405004): [Perf] : pcs cluster resources went into stopped state during Multithreaded perf tests on RHGS layered over RHEL 6
- [#1405130](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1405130): `gluster volume heal <vol-name> split-brain' does not heal if data/metadata/entry self-heal options are turned off
- [#1405450](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1405450): tests/bugs/snapshot/bug-1316437.t test is causing spurious failure
- [#1405577](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1405577): [GANESHA] failed to create directory of hostname of new node in var/lib/nfs/ganesha/ in already existing  cluster nodes
- [#1405886](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1405886): Fix potential leaks in INODELK cbk in protocol/client
- [#1405890](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1405890): Fix spurious failure in bug-1402841.t-mt-dir-scan-race.t
- [#1405951](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1405951): NFS-Ganesha:Volume reset for any option causes reset of ganesha enable option and bring down the ganesha services
- [#1406740](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1406740): Fix spurious failure in tests/bugs/replicate/bug-1402730.t
- [#1408414](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1408414): Remove-brick rebalance failed while rm -rf is in progress
- [#1408772](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1408772): [Arbiter] After Killing a brick writes drastically slow down
- [#1408786](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1408786): with granular-entry-self-heal enabled i see that there is a gfid mismatch and vm goes to paused state after migrating to another host
- [#1410073](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1410073): Fix failure of split-brain-favorite-child-policy.t in CentOS7
- [#1410369](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1410369): Dict_t leak in dht_migration_complete_check_task and  dht_rebalance_inprogress_task
- [#1410699](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1410699): [geo-rep]: Config commands fail when the status is 'Created'
- [#1410708](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1410708): glusterd/geo-rep: geo-rep config command leaks fd
- [#1410764](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1410764): Remove-brick rebalance failed while rm -rf is in progress
- [#1411011](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1411011): atime becomes zero when truncating file via ganesha (or gluster-NFS)
- [#1411613](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1411613): Fix the place where  graph switch event is logged